My Sleeping Buddy!

Hello. Today, I would like to introduce my sleep buddy. Well, actually this buddy is my mom's, but I am using her right now. My buddy does not have name yet, so please pick cute name for her!

She is always sleeping next to me in the same bed, and she is SO CUTE!!!

NOW, I will introduce my sleeping buddy.....................................

She is......................................................................................................

Ahaha!!! Don't you think she is cute??? She is sleeping with me every night!

Please give me some ideas for her name. Now I am calling her "Usa Chan". It means Rabbit, but it is saying cute way. What name will be best for her?

Tanabata

Today, 7/7 is Japanese Start Festival!, and also related to Chinese star festival.

It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.

In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊 tanzaku), small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations. The bamboo and decorations are often set afloat on a river or burned after the festival, around midnight or on the next day. This resembles the custom of floating paper ships and candles on rivers during Obon. Many areas in Japan have their own Tanabata customs, which are mostly related to local Obon traditions.　(from wikipedia)

I did not have chance to write my wish on Tanzaku in this year... I am wishing into my heart...instead of writing.

What will you wish for Star Festival?

I just pick one picture from last summer that I was wearing Yukata, which is summer Kimono. Star Festival is like summer festival, so I just pick summer image picture.

Thank you!!!

Pocky Package!

HiHiHi again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, I am writing too much(???) about new stories??? Ahaha. I am so sorry about that. You may think what's happened to Hiromi!!!

Well, I just wanted to post new stories for my blog today.

I want to share one marketing story with you. Now, I am working Marketing company, and during I was reading Marketing magazine, I found cute package for Pocky.

Do you know Pocky? It is Japanese snack, and there are many flavor(?) for pocky.

Here is links for this item.

http://www.glico.co.jp/en/index.htm

http://www.glico.co.jp/pretz/tsuretette/index.htm

I do not know why, but I think this is so cute package for snack, and it is interesting idea for ad.

What do you think about this idea for packege?

I just like it, so found some special package for pocky and took pictures.

...CUTE...

Crab!!!

Hello again and again!!!

I forgot to post My daddy's Birthday dinner...We had a Daddy's B-day Party at home last month. My daddy's Birthday is June 2, and we had family dinner on middle of June because of our schedule.

My mom and I cooked together, and our main dish was CRAB!!!

My brother ordered big crabs for the party. It was easy to get crabs because he has a friend who work at fish market.

It was so huge size of crabs and it was so delicious!!! It was really sweet and tasty! We also had many other dishes and cake for dessert. I did not take too much pictures, so I could not explain too much...Sorry.

Well, we had a really great time with family, and hope my daddy had a great Birthday dinner with us.

I will just show some pictures of crab!!!

My brother made like this!!!

So, now do you feel like want to eat Crab for 4th of July meal?

Gift from Amy & Ricky!!!

Hello, again... I have many stories I would like to share with you recently, but I could not post them because I am soooooooo busy for work. So now I have time to write and post new stories.

My best friends/Family, Amy & Ricky, came to Japan from June22-29. We had many things to do, but limited time... Hope they had a great time in Japan.

I will have some stories during Amy & Ricky were in Japan, but today I would like to share the gift they gave us.

You know I have my favorite Honey from San Francisco, and I think... I posted about the honey tea story before... I bet....Anyway, my mom and I love the honey from the farmer's market in SF.

The gift they gave us was tool for honey. OMG! It is so cute. It is called" Mini honey pot & dipper". And also they gave us a honey!!!

Thank you very much, Amy & Ricky. We are already using it.

I think it is so cute and useful tool for honey!!! Thank you!!!